Details about how the instrument was designed:
The plan was prepared by the Fondo para la Protección del Agua de Quito (FONAG), an endowment fund created to care for, protect and conserve the watersheds that supply water to the Metropolitan District of Quito.
The public stakeholders involved in this project are three ministerial-level institutions (MAE - Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, MTOP - Ministry of Transportation and Public Works, and SENAGUA - National Water Secretariat), three public companies (EPMAPS - Metropolitan Public Company of Drinking Water and Sanitation of Quito, CELEC - Electrical Corporation of Ecuador, and PetroEcuador - Empresa Pública de Hidrocarburos), two secretariats of the Quito City Council (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente and Secretaría de Territorio, Hábitat y Vivienda), the Autonomous Decentralized Government of the Parish of Pifo and the Province of Pichincha, the Water Council of Pifo and the Interinstitutional Committee of Cerro Las Puntas.
Although these entities do not participate directly in the design of the plan, the influences between the project and the different actors involved are analyzed.
Targeted actors:
Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
Private: household, real estate developer, business , financial
Researchers, university
Citizens or community groups (CBOs), NGOs, NGOs, etc.
Details about the implementation:
Because of the importance of protecting its waters, the plan is closely linked to EPSMAPS (Empresa Pública de Agua Potable y Saneamiento de Quito).
EPSMAPS is the municipal agency in charge of water management in the Metropolitan District of Quito.
The actors involved in its implementation are multiple, private and public, and with different implications; FONAG's constituents are,
The original constituents are the Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (EPMAPS) and The Nature Conservancy. Empresa Eléctrica Quito (2001) joined through adhesion contracts,
Cervecería Nacional CN S.A. (2003), CONDESAN (2005), and The Tesalia Springs Company S.A. (2007).
The plan is included in FONAG's 2016-2020 strategic plan.
How did the government support the instrument?:
FONAG is financed mainly with public funds from EPMAPS (Empresa Pública de Agua Potable y Saneamiento de Quito).
